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From the vault This day in tech history, November 10
- 1951
The first customer-dialed long-distance call
Englewood, New Jersey, Mayor M. Leslie Denning dialed an area code and a seven-digit number himself and reached Mayor Frank Osborne of Alameda, California, with no operator on the line.
- 1983
Microsoft announces Windows
Pitched against graphical interfaces like the Apple Lisa's, it slipped until Windows 1.0 shipped in 1985 with pull-down menus, tiled windows, mouse support and cooperative multitasking. It didn't catch on until version 3.0.
- 2020
Video Game History: Xbox Series X and Series S come out
Microsoft launched them in 40 markets at $499 and $299, with more than 40 new games playable on day one, 30 of them with Smart Delivery.
Then and now
1984: An HP LaserJet printer: $3,495. Today: $139.99 for a Brother HL-L2405W laser printer. The Brother prints up to 30 pages a minute, per Brother's own page.
